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Task A - Register borrowing (domain) - Alexander Pope
Below are some directions for writing an epic poem.
What register is being borrowed, to what purpose,
and what is it about the language that helps you to you know these things?
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For a Tempest. Take Eurus, Zephyr, Auster and Boreas, and cast them
together in one verse. Add to these of rain, lightening and of thunder,
(the loudest you can) quantum sufficit. Mix your clouds and billows
well together till they foam, and thicken your description here and
there with a quicksand. Brew your tempest well in your head before
you set it a-blowing.
(Alexander Pope  ,
directions for composing an epic, in 'The Guardian', 1713)
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